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50 Years & Still Sunny!Gloria Estefan hosts this look back at Sesame Street and its impact—with Jodie Foster, LL Cool J, Itzhak Perlman, Ken Burns and more—December 4, during UNC-TV’s Winter of Discovery.

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ALL DAY & ALL NIGHT 6 AM Cyberchase 7:00 Arthur DV

Read-a-roo’s Block Party—Let’s Go Luna (weekends, until 10 AM)

7:30 Odd Squad 8:00 Ready Jet Go! 8:30 Peg + Cat 9:00 Clifford the Big Red Dog 9:30 Pinkalicious&Peterrific 10:00 Sesame Street DV

10:30 Super WHY! (weekends: Esme & Roy) 11:00 WordWorld (weekends: Super WHY!)11:30 Splash & Bubbles Noon Sid the Science Kid12:30 Caillou 1:00 Peep & the

Big Wide World Read-a-roo’s Block

Party—Let’s Go Luna (weekends, until 4 PM)

1:30 Martha Speaks 2:00 Sesame Street DV

2:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV

3:30 Pinkalicious&Peterrific 4:00 The Cat in the Hat

Knows a Lot About That 4:30 Dinosaur Train DV

5:00 Let’s Go Luna 5:30 Nature Cat 6:30 Wild Kratts 7:30 Molly of Denali 8:00 Odd Squad 8:30 Arthur DV

9:00 Ready Jet Go! 9:30 WordGirl 10:00 Sesame Street DV

10:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV

11:30 Pinkalicious&Peterrific 12 M The Cat in the Hat

Knows a Lot About That12:30 Dinosaur Train DV

1:00 Let’s Go Luna 1:30 Nature Cat 2:30 Wild Kratts 3:30 Molly of Denali 4:00 Odd Squad DV

4:30 Arthur DV

5:00 Ready Jet Go! 5:30 WordGirl

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BIG NEWS: CLIFFORD IS BACK!Premieres Saturday, December 7

Clifford and his devoted human, Emily Elizabeth, are back in this loyal reboot of the beloved series. As preschoolers explore colorful, new places with Clifford, they’ll get a boost of empathy, early literacy and imaginative play.

Watch Rootle on UNC-TV every Friday for a new episode and weekends on your Rootle channel!

LET’S GO LUNA!Weekends, at 7 AM & 1 PM

Follow the Circo Fabuloso this month on the Block Party! Join pals Carmen, Andy

and Leo adventuring across the globe and exploring all seven continents as they learn about new cultures with their bright friend, Luna—the moon!

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1 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat NC Closer to Truth Can Metaphysics

Discern God, II? EX Finding Your Roots Pioneers with Neil Patrick

Harris, Gloria Steinem & Sandra Cisneros DV

6:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Education Matters Learn about key issues

affecting education in NC. 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV

NC The Open Mind Libel & the Presidency EX Antiques Roadshow Virginia Beach, Part 2 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s

Neighborhood DV

NC ncIMPACT Healthcare Access

in Rural Communities: McDowell County

8:00 TV Curious George NC Carolina

Business Review Chris William and his

guests discuss business news in the Carolinas.

EX Secrets of Britain’s Great Cathedrals

Wales St. David’s/Brecon/St. Asaph & Bangor

8:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Firing Line with

Margaret Hoover Bright minds and fresh

voices debate important challenges.

9:00 TV This Old House Hour Westerly: Raise a Second

Story/Ductless Humidifier NC Washington Week Leading journalists analyze

major news and events. EX Secrets of Britain’s

Great Cathedrals East Ely & Peterborough

Cathedrals/King’s College Cambridge

9:30 NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman

The political analyst and his guests discuss public affairs and policy issues.

10:00 TV Brain Fitness Program Drive beneficial chemical,

physical and functional changes in the brain.

NC NC SPIN Join Tom Campbell and

his guests for informative, balanced debate for the Old North State.

EX Secrets of Westminster

Explore a world of intrigue and traditions behind the gothic walls of the Houses of Parliament.

10:30 NC North Carolina Bookwatch

Andrew Lawler: The Secret Token

11:00 NC Comic Culture Phillip Sevy EX Are We There Yet?

Ireland Galway 11:30 NC Story in the

Public Square Ian Reifowitz Noon TV FRONT ROW

with Marc Rotterman

NC Carolina Outdoor Journal

Offshore Bite EX Travelscope Portugal: From Porto

to Salamanca DV 12:30 TV NC SPIN NC Fishing

Behind the Lines Ben Carter:

Wading for Trout EX Burt Wolf:

Travels & Traditions Volunteer Tourism, Part 1 1:00 TV 3 Steps to

Incredible Health! with Joel Fuhrman, MD

Dr. Fuhrman shares a plan for shedding weight fast.

NC Song of the Mountains Tribute & Memorial to

Miss Dixie Hall EX Aging Backwards 3

with Miranda Esmonde-White

Learn how gentle daily movement help keep minds sharp and bodies active.

2:00 NC David Holt’s State of Music

Rising Stars EX Downton Abbey

Returns! Join Jim Carter (Carson)

for a celebration of the beloved hit series.

2:30 NC Bluegrass Underground

Josh Ritter 3:00 TV Ken Burns:

Country Music Kathy Mattea hosts this

look at the making of the epic documentary series.

NC The Kate Owen & Mícheál “Moley”

Ó Súilleabháin 3:30 EX Age Fix with

Anthony Youn, MD Dr. Youn shares a

surgery-free way to fix age-related skin concerns.

THROUGH WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11

Celebrate Il Volo: Ten Years, Sunday, December 1, at 7 PM, on UNC-TV.

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9:00 NC Family Pictures USA Southwest Florida 10:00 NC REEL SOUTH Two Trains Runnin’ EX Dionne Warwick:

Then Came You Sing along with the

famed singer on some of her dazzling classics.

11:00 TV EastEnders NC ncIMPACT Healthcare Access


11:30 TV EastEnders NC My Home, NC Chatham Rabbits/

Mitchell’s Clothing/Artivist Rosalía Torres-Weiner

EX Rick Steves’ Europe: Remote, Sacred, Wild

Celebrate the wonder of the great outdoors and religious sites in Europe and beyond.

2 MONDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Get in-depth analyses of

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America Katty Kay shares unique

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and traditions behind Parliament’s gothic walls.

6:30 NC Nightly Business Report

Seasoned reporters review financial news.

7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe European Festivals II DV

7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Peas, Please

EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly

Emerald Isle: Ireland as a Family Getaway

8:00 TV Great Scenic Railway Journeys: 150 Years on the Right Track

Follow remarkable stories of historic and scenic rail-roads from across America.

NC Exploring North Carolina

From NC’s “Front Porch” EX Grantchester

Season 2 on Masterpiece Episode 3 A false alarm

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8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina

Giving Nature a Hand 9:00 NC My Home, NC The Trip Artist Dave Also-

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EX Death in Paradise On-the-Air DJ Death 9:30 NC North Carolina

Weekend Biltmore’s Downton Abbey

Exhibit/NC Museum of His-tory’s Vintage Toy Display/Poinsettias at Mitchell’s Nursery/Surry Wine Tour

9:50 NC North Carolina Weekend—Shorts

Mustang Museum 10:00 TV Aging Backwards 3


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NC My Home, NC Cheerwine 100th/Piano

Man/Summerville/Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen/NC Ninja/Historic Beach Cottages

EX Shetland All the team is under threat. 10:30 NC ncIMPACT Healthcare Access in

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11:00 TV Amanpour & Company The acclaimed journalist

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NC PBS NewsHour EX Finding Your Roots Pioneers with Neil Patrick

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4:00 NC Austin City Limits Norah Jones/Angel Olsen 5:00 TV Classic Christmas Enjoy such old-fashioned

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NC PBS NewsHour Weekend

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EX Classical Rewind Explore the greatest

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Television Curry/Evans-Winters/Keith EX Aretha Franklin

Remembered The legendary performer

is remembered from her early days to her time as a musical powerhouse.

7:00 TV Il Volo: Ten Years Premiere! The group

performs Grande Amore, Il Mondo and more from Italy’s ancient city of Matera.

NC Family Pictures USA North Carolina 8:00 NC Family Pictures USA Detroit 8:30 TV Great Performances:

Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert

Experience Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera star-ring John Legend, Sara Bareilles and more stars.

EX Pete Seeger Tribute Concert: Woody’s Children 50th

Peter Yarrow, Holly Near and other musicians per-form a concert celebrating Seeger’s 100th birthday.

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World’s First Underground 10:30 NC On Story Wild Wild Country:

A Conversation with Chapman & Maclain Way

11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope Taiwan: Mountain Beauty,

Villages & Cultures 11:30 EX In the Americas

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4 WEDNESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News

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America EX Simply Ming Jacques Pépin 6:30 NC Nightly

Business Report EX Yan Can Cook:

Spice Kingdom Tomorrow’s Chengdu 7:00 TV Nightly

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7:30 TV My Home, NC Country Cool Meet Randy

Travis, who’s sold over 25 million records, his family and friends. Then visit his Marshville hometown and Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame. And Steep Canyon Rangers share spe-cial memories of their time with Randy Travis.

EX Travelscope Surprising Toronto DV

8:00 TV Country Music: Live at the Ryman

Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens, Vince Gill and more musicians celebrate the film by Ken Burns.

NC North Carolina Bookwatch

Malinda Maynor Lowery: The Lumbee


World’s First Deep Tube Line

8:30 NC Story in the Public Square Ian Reifowitz

9:00 NC My Home, NC The Trip Artist Dave Also-



History of the Central Line 9:30 NC Comic Culture Gerry Conway 10:00 TV Feel Better with

Pressure Point Therapy Dr. Michael Pinkus applies

techniques involving an-cient acupressure points to provide pain relief.

NC Articulate with Jim Cotter

Valentine’s Day

7:30 TV North Carolina Weekend

Biltmore’s Downton Abbey Exhibit/NC Museum of His-tory’s Vintage Toy Display/Poinsettias at Mitchell’s Nursery/Surry Wine Tour

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese

Africa: the Elephant Trunk Show

8:00 TV Sesame Street: 50 Years & Still Sunny!

Gloria Estefan hosts this 50th anniversary celebration of the iconic children’s series.

NC Country Music The Sons & Daughters of

America (1964 -1968) DV

EX Chefs A’ Field: Good Catch

Eating the Invasives Featur-ing Chef Jennifer Carroll

8:30 EX Pati’s Mexican Table Surfside Eats 9:00 EX Mexico—

One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless

You Don’t Know the Whole Enchilada

9:30 TV Brain Fitness Program Drive beneficial chemical,

physical and functional changes in the brain.

EX Taste of History Bourbon: The True

American Spirit 10:00 NC A Great American

Tapestry Premiere! Explore the roots

of Appalachian music. EX Sara’s

Weeknight Meals Picnics & Tailgates 10:30 EX Jamie’s

Quick & Easy Food Chops/Linguine/Fish Cakes 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Nature Hotel Armadillo DV

5 THURSDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News

America EX New

Scandinavian Cooking Drama on a Plate 6:30 NC Nightly

Business Report EX Christopher Kimball’s

Milk Street Television Tuesday Night Italian 7:00 TV Nightly

Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Scotland’s Highlands DV

7:30 TV Sci NC Foodie Science

Give your gray matter a boost with Brain Fitness Program, Wednesday, December 4, at 9:30 PM, on UNC-TV.

Follow the Appalachian Scots-Irish, African-American and Indigenous musical threads that make A Great American Tapestry, Wednesday, December 4, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.

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EX Travelscope Ontario’s Central Counties:

Multi-Cultural Advent DV

8:00 TV ncIMPACT Human Trafficking: Triad NC Flavor, NC In Good Heart Farm:

Clayton EX Travelscope Dreamin’ California’s Coast:

Malibu to Big Sur DV

8:30 TV Muse Diverse Voices:

Cornelio Campos/ Etched Earth Designs

NC Around the Farm Table Mangalitsa Hogs, Hops &

Blue Corn! EX Burt Wolf:

Travels & Traditions The Beach Vacation, Part 1 9:00 TV North Carolina

Weekend Rejuvenated Downtown

Marion/Goldsboro Ghost Tour/Leland’s House of Pickleball/S&T’s Soda Shoppe in Pittsboro

NC A Chef’s Life Apples EX Weekends

with Yankee Flora & Fauna 9:30 TV John Fogerty:

My 50 Year Trip Experience the sounds

and spirit of 1969 on this musical journey.

NC Jazzy Vegetarian Summer Afternoon Tea EX Wild Nevada Enjoying Ely 10:00 NC North Carolina



EX Journeys in India Panna: Land of the Dhole

10:30 NC Muse Diverse Voices:


EX Travelogue China Wujiang: The Land of Silk 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope Taiwan: Mountain Beauty,

Villages & Cultures 11:30 EX In the Americas

with David Yetman Argentina’s Route 40: From

the Steppes to the Lake

6 FRIDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News

America EX Taste of History Remember Paoli 6:30 NC Nightly

Business Report EX Kevin Belton’s

New Orleans Celebrations Strawberry Fest 7:00 TV Nightly

Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Scotland’s Islands DV

7:30 TV NC SPIN EX Travelscope Sault Ste. Marie, Canada DV

8:00 TV Washington Week Leading journalists analyze

major news and events. NC North Carolina



EX Poldark Season 5 on Masterpiece

Episode 4 George’s sanity deteriorates.

8:30 TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman

NC ncIMPACT Human Trafficking: Triad

Flash back with John Fogerty: My 50 Year Trip, Thursday, December 5, at 9:30 PM, on UNC-TV.

Sample sandwiches on Jazzy Vegetarian Summer Afternoon Tea, Thursday, December 5, at 9:30 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.

Join top stars for Great Performances: An Intimate Evening with David Foster, Friday, December 6, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.

9:00 TV Great Performances: An Intimate Evening with David Foster

The celebrated musician and composer explores the music of his career with guest artists.

NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman

EX Jamestown Episode 7 The Sharrows

get embroiled with a noto-rious Pamunkey warrior.

9:30 NC Washington Week 10:00 NC NC SPIN EX Atlantis The Song of the Sirens 10:30 NC Firing Line with

Margaret Hoover Bright minds and fresh

voices debate important challenges.

11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX EastEnders 11:30 EX EastEnders

7 SATURDAY 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’

Neighborhood DV

NC Situation Report: Lib-erating Belgium, Remem-bering America’s Sacrifice

See how a grateful country still honors U.S. WWI and WWII soldiers.

EX Carolina Outdoor Journal

Spring Top Water Bass 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s

Neighborhood DV

EX Expeditions with Patrick McMillan

The Florida Scrub: Islands in Time

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7:00 TV Sesame Street DV


Spring Top Water Bass EX Exploring

North Carolina From NC’s “Front Porch” 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s

Neighborhood DV

NC Outside with Greg Aiello

Molokai EX My Home, NC Country Cool Meet Randy

Travis, who’s sold over 25 million records, his family and friends. Then visit his Marshville hometown and Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame. And Steep Canyon Rangers share spe-cial memories of their time with Randy Travis.

8:00 TV Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV


From NC’s “Front Porch” EX Earth’s

Great Seasons Spring 8:30 TV Molly of Denali DV

NC Muse Diverse Voices:


9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV

NC North Carolina Weekend

Rejuvenated Downtown Marion/Goldsboro Ghost Tour/Leland’s House of Pickleball/S&T’s Soda Shoppe in Pittsboro

EX Earth’s Great Seasons

Summer 9:30 TV Nature Cat NC ncIMPACT Human Trafficking: Triad 10:00 TV Rick Steves

European Christmas Celebrate Christmas in

England, France, Norway, Germany, Austria, Switzer-land and Italy.

NC Carolina Business Review

EX New Scandinavian Cooking

Tina’s French Pantry 10:30 NC The Open Mind Libel & the Presidency EX Jamie’s

Quick & Easy Food Sea Bass/Mushrooms/

Chicken/Pineapple 11:00 NC The Woodwright’s

Shop with Roy Underhill Sawing Secrets EX Taste of History Queen of the Caribbean

EX Forever Painless with Miranda Esmonde-White

Get groundbreaking, eye-opening information about chronic pain and its causes.

3:30 NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

4:00 NC FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman

EX Great Scenic Railway Journeys: 150 Years on the Right Track

Follow remarkable stories of historic and scenic rail-roads from across America.

4:30 TV Il Volo: Ten Years The group performs

Grande Amore, Il Mondo and more from Italy’s ancient city of Matera.

NC NC SPIN 5:00 NC PBS NewsHour

Weekend Gain insights about the

week’s issues. 5:30 NC Washington Week 6 PM TV Aretha Franklin

Remembered The legendary performer is

remembered from her early days to her time as a musi-cal powerhouse.

NC Classic Gospel Heaven EX 50 Years with

Peter, Paul & Mary Celebrate the impact of

the preeminent trio that brought folk music to America’s mass audiences.

7:00 NC Sun Studio Sessions Billy Woodward 7:30 NC Echo Sessions Jane Kramer 8:00 TV Country Music:

Live at the Ryman Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon

Giddens, Vince Gill and more musicians celebrate the film by Ken Burns.

NC Song of the Mountains Riley Anglen & the Big

Guns/Appalachian Trail EX Great Performances:

An Intimate Evening with David Foster

The celebrated musician and composer explores the music of his career with guest artists.

9:00 NC David Holt’s State of Music

David Holt House Party 1 9:30 NC Bluegrass

Underground Lucero 10:00 TV 50 Years with



11:30 NC Make48 SerieS Premiere! Meet teams

and learn about product challenges in this 48-hour invention competition.

EX Taste of Malaysia with Martin Yan

Life on the Pahang River Noon TV Sesame Street:

50 Years & Still Sunny! Premiere! Gloria Estefan

hosts this 50th anniversary celebration of the iconic children’s series.

NC Growing a Greener World

Creating a Meadow Garden EX Rudy Maxa’s World Kyoto, Japan 12:30 NC Tastemakers Preserved: Left Bank

Butchery in Saxapahaw EX In the Americas

with David Yetman Tultepec: Mexico’s

Skyrocket Central 1:00 NC Exploring

North Carolina From NC’s “Front Porch” EX Classic Christmas Enjoy such old-fashioned

favorites as Silent Night, White Christmas, Jingle Bells and more.

1:30 TV Ken Burns: Country Music

Kathy Mattea hosts this look at the making of the epic documentary series.

NC Changing Seas Mystery of the Humpback

Whale Song 2:00 NC Sci NC Think Small 2:30 NC Story in the

Public Square Ian Reifowitz 3:00 TV Pete Seeger

Tribute Concert: Woody’s Children 50th

Peter Yarrow, Holly Near and other musicians per-form a concert celebrating Seeger’s 100th birthday.

NC To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé

National TV’s only women-centered news analysis show tackles hot topics.

Discover the amazing Changing Seas Mystery of the Humpback Whale Song, Saturday, December 7, at 1:30 PM, on UNC-TV.

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11:30 NC Story in the Public Square

Michael Fine, MD Noon TV FRONT ROW

with Marc Rotterman NC Carolina

Outdoor Journal Catch a classic episode. EX Travelscope Mekong River Adventure,

Part 1 12:30 TV NC SPIN NC Fishing

Behind the Lines Nicolas Cote:

Canadian Walleye EX Burt Wolf:

Travels & Traditions Volunteer Tourism, Part 2 1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s

Milk Street Television Beirut Fast Food NC Song of the Mountains Riley Anglen & the Big

Guns/Appalachian Trail EX Age Fix with

Anthony Youn, MD Dr. Youn shares a

surgery-free way to fix age-related skin concerns.

1:30 TV Field Trip with Curtis Stone

Margaret River 2:00 TV America’s

Test Kitchen 20th Anniversary Special

Premiere! Savor all-time best recipes, cast members’ stories and much more!

NC David Holt’s State of Music

David Holt House Party 1 2:30 NC Bluegrass

Underground Lucero EX Feel Better with

Pressure Point Therapy Dr. Michael Pinkus applies

techniques involving an-cient acupressure points.

3:00 NC The Kate Marc Cohn with

Blind Boys of Alabama 3:30 TV Aging Backwards 3


Learn how gentle daily move-ment helps keep minds sharp and bodies active.

EX Sesame Street: 50 Years & Still Sunny!

Gloria Estefan hosts this 50th anniversary celebration of the iconic children’s series.

4:00 NC Austin City Limits Miguel/Alessia Cara 4:30 TV Beatles: Eight Days a

Week—The Touring Years Explore the history of the

Fab Four from their early days in Liverpool to their last concert in 1966.

NC The Kate Marc Cohn with

Blind Boys of Alabama EX 3 Steps to

Pain-free Living Eliminate the root cause

of many painful conditions with an easy-to-follow plan.

11:00 NC Austin City Limits Miguel/Alessia Cara

8 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat NC Closer to Truth What Is God’s Own Being? EX Finding Your Roots Dreaming of a New Land

with Marisa Tomei, Sheryl Sandberg & Kal Penn

6:30 NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV

NC The Open Mind Charitarian Patriotism EX Antiques Roadshow Virginia Beach, Part 3 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s

Neighborhood DV

NC ncIMPACT Human Trafficking: Triad 8:00 TV Curious George:

A Very Monkey Christmas

George and the Man with the Yellow Hat enjoy pre-paring for Christmas. DV



World’s First Deep Tube Line

8:30 NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

9:00 TV This Old House Hour Westerly: Decking for

Beginners/Built-In, Dining Room

NC Washington Week EX Inside the Tube:

Going Underground History of the Central Line 9:30 NC FRONT ROW

with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV Memory Rescue with

Daniel Amen, MD Learn ways to supercharge

your memory and access what matters most to you.

NC NC SPIN EX Inside the Tube:

Going Underground World’s First Underground 10:30 NC North Carolina

Bookwatch Malinda Maynor Lowery:

The Lumbee 11:00 NC Comic Culture Brian Silveira EX Are We There Yet?

Ireland Blarney Castle & Gardens

5:00 NC PBS NewsHour Weekend

EX Country Music: Live at the Ryman

Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens, Vince Gill and more musicians celebrate the film by Ken Burns.

5:30 NC ncIMPACT Human Trafficking: Triad 6 PM NC Black Issues Forum Closing the Education Gap 6:30 NC Blackademics

Television Riders/Adams/Kabui 7:00 TV British Beat Rare archival performance

films are mixed with new live performances of 1960s British Invasion hits.

NC Beyond the Fields: Slavery at Middleton Place

Explore slavery and its 21st century impact at Middle-ton Place in Charleston, SC.

EX Rick Steves Holy Land: Israelis & Palestinians Today

Visit sites and explore Israeli and Palestinian nar-ratives to understand the region better.

8:00 NC Isaac Pope: The Spirit of an American Century

This story sheds light on the devastation wrought by segregationists in NC.

9:00 TV Downton Abbey Returns!

Join Jim Carter (Carson) for a celebration of the beloved hit series.

NC Evolution of America: 1619 to Today

Explore pivotal events from the year 1619 that helped shape the U.S.

EX 3 Steps to Incredible Health! with Joel Fuhrman, MD

Dr. Fuhrman shares his plan for shedding weight fast.

10:00 NC REEL SOUTH A Texas Myth 11:00 TV EastEnders NC ncIMPACT Human Trafficking: Triad EX Wings Over

Grand Canyon This aerial journey captures

stunning imagery of land-scapes, lakes and canyons.

11:30 TV EastEnders NC My Home, NC

9 MONDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News

America EX Inside the Tube:

Going Underground World’s First Underground

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7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Glasgow & Scottish

Passions DV

7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Stand by Your Cabbage EX Family Travel

with Colleen Kelly Exploring the Wild Atlantic

Way: A Girls’ Getaway 8:00 TV 50 Years with




Our Place in Space EX Grantchester

Season 2 on Masterpiece Episode 4 An apparent

suicide leads Sidney to perform an exorcism. DV


Beauty with Six Legs 9:00 NC Muse Diverse Voices:


EX Death in Paradise Corpse in the Cop Shop 9:30 NC North Carolina



10:00 TV Aging Backwards 3 with Miranda Esmonde-White

Learn how gentle daily movement helps keep minds sharp and bodies active.

NC My Home, NC Albatross Fleet/Kim’s Wig

Center/Love & Chocolate/Frisco UFO

EX Shetland Perez fights bureaucracy. 10:30 NC ncIMPACT Human Trafficking: Triad 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Finding Your Roots Dreaming of a New Land

with Marisa Tomei, Sheryl Sandberg & Kal Penn


America EX Simply Ming Kristen Kish


EX Yan Can Cook: Spice Kingdom

Hot Pot, Anyone? 7:00 TV Nightly

Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe The Majesty of Madrid 7:30 TV North Carolina



EX Travelscope Northwest Ontario: Lake

Superior & Beyond DV

8:00 TV Members’ Favorites See what UNC-TV mem-

bers like you like best. NC North Carolina

Bookwatch Scott Huler:

A Delicious Country EX Inside the Tube:

Going Underground The First Modern Tube Line 8:30 NC Story in the

Public Square Michael Fine, MD 9:00 NC Muse Diverse Voices:


EX Secrets of Underground London

Examine fascinating natural and man-made wonders.

9:30 NC Comic Culture Andy Smith 10:00 TV Forever Painless with

Miranda Esmonde-White Get groundbreaking, eye-

opening information about chronic pain and its causes.


Earth Day EX Secrets of

Scotland Yard Go inside London’s legend-

ary police force. 10:30 NC On Story Deconstructing Nora Ephron 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope Maine: Town & Country 11:30 EX In the Americas

with David Yetman Heart of the Wilderness:

Wyoming’s Wind River Range


America

EX Sci NC Foodie Science 6:30 NC Nightly

Business Report EX ncIMPACT Human Trafficking: Triad 7:00 TV Nightly

Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Highlights of Castile:

Toledo & Salamanca 7:30 TV Muse Diverse Voices:



Qatar: Pearl of the Arabian Sea

8:00 TV Ken Burns: The National Parks

Explore the beauty and grandeur of our nation’s magnificent parks, from Acadia to Yosemite.

NC Country Music Will the Circle Be Unbro-

ken? (1968 -1972) DV


Urban Abundance Featur-ing Chef Gavin Kaysen

8:30 EX Pati’s Mexican Table A Day in Sinaloa’s

Countryside 9:00 EX Mexico—


Crispy Carnitas 9:30 TV Brain Secrets with

Dr. Michael Merzenich Dr. Merzenich discusses

how to improve and main-tain cognitive fitness and deal with aging.

EX Taste of History Little England in the

Caribbean 10:00 NC David Holt’s

State of Music David Holt House Party 1 EX Sara’s

Weeknight Meals Vegan with Adam Sobel 10:30 NC Folkways Music from the Hills EX Jamie’s

Quick & Easy Food Chops/Linguine/Fish Cakes 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Nature Dogs in the Land of Lions DV


America EX New

Scandinavian Cooking Tina’s French Pantry

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EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television

Holiday Entertaining 7:00 TV Nightly

Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Normandy: War-Torn

Yet Full of Life 7:30 TV My Home, NC Photographer Watson

Brown/Davian Robinson/Kudzu Goat Gang

EX Travelscope Thousand Islands:

A Canadian Binational Adventure DV

8:00 TV ncIMPACT Pretrial Reform: Haywood/

Jackson Counties NC Flavor, NC Braswell Foods: Nashville EX Travelscope San Miguel de Allende:

Celebrating in the Heart of Mexico DV

8:30 TV Muse Music Heritage &

Education: Steep Canyon Rangers/Start of Cool Summer Camp/We Insist: Music of Max Roach

NC Around the Farm Table Friendsgiving EX Burt Wolf:

Travels & Traditions The Beach Vacation, Part 2 9:00 TV North Carolina

Weekend Passage of the 19th

Amendment Exhibit/Trim-ming & Picking at Drexel Barbershop/Raleigh’s Dock 1053/NC Arboretum’s Winter Lights Show

NC A Chef’s Life The Fish Episode, Y’all EX Weekends

with Yankee Shores & Shellfish 9:30 TV Exploring

North Carolina On the Shoulders of a River NC Jazzy Vegetarian Gluten-Free Breakfast Menu EX Wild Nevada Wendover to Elko 10:00 TV A Chef’s Life

Holiday Special Vivian Howard hosts her

own vision of the season’s celebrations with peanut brittle and much more.


Passage of the 19th Amendment Exhibit/Trim-ming & Picking at Drexel Barbershop/Raleigh’s Dock 1053/NC Arboretum’s Winter Lights Show

EX Journeys in India Ahmedabad:

Land of Gandhi 10:30 NC Muse Music Heritage &


EX Travelogue China The Pearl River:

Mouth to Source Part 1 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope Thailand: Bangkok & Beyond 11:30 EX In the Americas

with David Yetman From Vaquejada to

Jangada: Into Rural Ceara, Brazil


America EX Taste of History Settling Jamestown 6:30 NC Nightly


New Orleans Celebrations Catfish Fest 7:00 TV Nightly

Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Belfast & the Best of

Northern Ireland 7:30 TV NC SPIN EX Travelscope Northeast Ontario: Cana-

da’s Canoe Culture & Fir DV

8:00 TV Washington Week NC North Carolina




Episode 5 Ross returns to London with the Despards and Enyses.


NC ncIMPACT Pretrial Reform: Haywood/

Jackson Counties 9:00 TV Chefs Marcus

& Vivian: A Taste of What’s Next

Premiere! The chefs explore the rich Los Angeles food scene at Grand Central Market.


EX Jamestown Episode 8 Mercy and Pep-

per bring joy to the town. 9:30 TV No Passport Required Seattle NC Washington Week 10:00 NC NC SPIN EX Atlantis The Rules of Engagement 10:30 TV Chefs Marcus

& Vivian: A Taste of What’s Next

The chefs explore the rich Los Angeles food scene at Grand Central Market.

NC Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX EastEnders 11:30 EX EastEnders


Neighborhood DV

NC A Chef’s Life Holiday Special

Vivian Howard hosts her own vision of the season’s celebrations with peanut brittle and much more.


Inlet Flounder 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s

Neighborhood DV


Can We Save the Florida Scrub?



Inlet Flounder EX Exploring

North Carolina On the Shoulders of a River

Travel the country’s immigrant foodways with Chefs Marcus & Vivian: A Taste of What’s Next, premiering Friday, December 13, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.

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7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV


Torrey Pines EX My Home, NC The Highlands Get behind-

the-scenes Biltmore stories and learn what it takes to preserve some 35,000 arti-facts. Then meet a couple whose cows’ viral cuteness is creating a new kind of sustainable agriculture. And see how a seventh-gen-eration blueberry farmer is making a name with his family-recipe jams.



Our Place in Space EX Earth’s

Great Seasons Autumn 8:30 TV Molly of Denali DV

NC Muse Music Heritage &


9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV


Passage of the 19th Amendment Exhibit/Trim-ming & Picking at Drexel Barbershop/Raleigh’s Dock 1053/NC Arboretum’s Winter Lights Show

EX Earth’s Great Seasons

Winter 9:30 TV Nature Cat NC ncIMPACT Pretrial Reform: Haywood/

Jackson Counties 10:00 TV North Carolina





Pale Fish 10:30 TV ncIMPACT Pretrial Reform: Haywood/

Jackson Counties NC The Open Mind Charitarian Patriotism EX Jamie’s

Quick & Easy Food Beef/Rice/Salmon/

Plum Tarte

11:00 TV Growing a Greener World

The Year-Round Gardener NC The Woodwright’s

Shop with Roy Underhill The Tiny Tool Kit EX Taste of History Washington’s Character,

Charisma & Ambition 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s

Garden Home Charming Charleston NC Make48 Teams go on a hardware

store run to gather supplies for their inventions.


Adventure on the Go Noon TV GardenSMART Radical Transformations NC Growing a

Greener World Seed to Fork: Growing an

Abundant & Beautiful Cold Climate Garden

EX Rudy Maxa’s World South Africa: Safari 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Alabama’s Oldest Farmers

Market/NM Farm School NC Tastemakers Sweet Stuff EX In the Americas

with David Yetman In the Shadow of the Volca-

noes: Chile’s Melting Pot 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow New Orleans, Part 1 NC Exploring

North Carolina Our Place in Space EX Travelscope Rwanda: Among

the Gorillas DV

1:30 NC Changing Seas Dolphins: Breaking

the Code EX Samantha Brown’s

Places to Love Baltimore, MD 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe The Majesty of Madrid NC Sci NC New Discoveries EX Inside the Tube:

Going Underground The First Modern Tube Line 2:30 TV Curious Traveler Curious Stockholm NC Story in the

Public Square Michael Fine, MD 3:00 TV Craftsman’s Legacy The Tool Chest Makers NC To the Contrary

with Bonnie Erbé EX Secrets of

Underground London Take a look at natural and

man-made wonders.

3:30 TV American Woodshop Pallet Works NC Firing Line with

Margaret Hoover 4:00 TV This Old House Hour Westerly: Return to Para-

dise/Women’s Repair Class NC FRONT ROW

with Marc Rotterman EX Secrets of

Scotland Yard Go inside London’s

legendary police force. 4:30 NC NC SPIN 5:00 TV Carolina

Outdoor Journal Offshore Bite NC PBS NewsHour

Weekend EX Earth’s

Great Seasons Autumn 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour

Weekend NC Washington Week 6 PM TV Song of the Mountains The Dillards with

Charlene Darling & The Mayberry Deputy

NC Classic Gospel Best of the Booth Brothers EX Earth’s

Great Seasons Winter 7:00 TV As Time Goes By Animal Magnetism NC Sun Studio Sessions Patrick Sweany EX A Christmas

with Moravians Travel the world retracing

this Christian denomina-tion’s roots.

7:30 TV As Time Goes By The Bathroom NC Echo Sessions Ghost Light 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Schooled in Murder, Part 1 NC Song of the Mountains Trinity River Band/Michael

Cleveland & Flamekeeper EX Country Music The Sons & Daughters of

America (1964 -1968) DV

9:00 TV Midsomer Murders Schooled in Murder, Part 2 NC David Holt’s

State of Music David Holt House Party 2 9:30 NC Bluegrass

Underground Brothers Osborne 10:00 TV Doc Martin Farewell, My Lovely NC The Kate Desmond Child EX Front & Center lovelytheband 11:00 TV Hinterland Mathias unearths shocking

secrets after a curator is dis-covered in a shallow grave.

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NC Austin City Limits Dan Auerbach/Shinyribs EX Music Voyager Antigua & Barbuda 11:30 EX Music Voyager Funky Nassau

15 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat NC Closer to Truth Huston Smith: Tribute to a

Religious Visionary EX Finding Your Roots Freedom Tales with

S. Epatha Merkerson & Michael Strahan

6:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV

NC The Open Mind High-Tech Dystopia &

Utopia EX Antiques Roadshow Extraordinary Finds 7:30 TV Clifford the

Big Red Dog Special Join Emily Elizabeth and

her big red dog for fun, new adventures, furry friends and original songs!


Jackson Counties 8:00 NC Carolina

Business Review EX Inside the Tube:

Going Underground The First Modern Tube Line 8:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Firing Line with

Margaret Hoover 9:00 TV This Old House Hour Westerly: Return to Para-

dise/Women’s Repair Class NC Washington Week EX Secrets of

Underground London Examine natural and

man-made wonders. 9:30 NC FRONT ROW

with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV Exploring

North Carolina On the Shoulders of a River NC NC SPIN EX Secrets of


legendary police force. 10:30 TV Muse Editorial Cartoonist

Dwane Powell NC North Carolina

Bookwatch Scott Huler:

A Delicious Country 11:00 TV North Carolina

Bookwatch David La Vere:

The Tuscarora War

NC Comic Culture Gerry Conway EX Are We There Yet?

Ireland Fossetts, Ireland’s

Oldest Circus 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Interview with Nicole

Hannah-Jones NC Story in the

Public Square Joseph Sakran, MD Noon TV FRONT ROW


Outdoor Journal Catch a classic episode. EX Travelscope Mekong River Adventure,

Part 2 12:30 TV NC SPIN NC Fishing

Behind the Lines Ice Fishing EX Burt Wolf:

Travels & Traditions Do the Right Thing 1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s

Milk Street Television Tuesday Night Italian NC Song of the Mountains Trinity River Band/Michael

Cleveland & Flamekeeper EX Atlantis The Rules of Engagement 1:30 TV Field Trip

with Curtis Stone Lombardy 2:00 TV America’s

Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated

Classic Chinese at Home NC David Holt’s

State of Music David Holt House Party 2 EX Poldark Season 5

on Masterpiece Episode 5 Ross returns

to London with the Despards and Enyses.

2:30 TV Cook’s Country BBQ Brisket & Fritters

NC Bluegrass Underground

Brothers Osborne 3:00 TV Sara’s

Weeknight Meals Chicks Rule NC The Kate Desmond Child EX Jamestown Episode 8 Mercy and Pep-

per bring joy to the town. 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen Cultured Comforts 4:00 TV Kevin Belton’s

New Orleans Celebrations Latin Fest NC Austin City Limits Dan Auerbach/Shinyribs EX Capital The police probe leads in

an unexpected direction. 4:30 TV Mexico—


Always Time for Tacos 5:00 TV Washington Week NC PBS NewsHour

Weekend EX Grantchester

Season 2 on Masterpiece Episode 4 An apparent

suicide leads Sidney to perform an exorcism. DV

5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend


Jackson Counties 6 PM TV Midsomer Murders Schooled in Murder, Part 1 NC Black Issues Forum Interview with Nicole

Hannah-Jones EX Death in Paradise Corpse in the Cop Shop 6:30 NC Blackademics

Television Chang/Saenz 7:00 TV Midsomer Murders Schooled in Murder, Part 2 NC Holiday Handbells:

The Raleigh Ringers The acclaimed community

handbell choir performs festive favorites.

EX Shetland Perez fights bureaucracy. 8:00 TV Victoria Season 3

on Masterpiece Uneasy Lies the Head

that Wears the Crown NC Holiday Sounds

from Appalachia Enjoy holiday hits from Ap-

palachian State University’s Hayes School of Music.

EX Africa’s Great Civilizations

Origins/The Cross & the Crescent DV

Alexander Heffner hosts The Open Mind, a thoughtful excursion into the world of ideas, Sundays, at 7 AM, on the North Carolina Channel.

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9:00 NC NC Master Chorale: Joy of the Season

The acclaimed vocalists, along with the Carolina Brass Quintet and other musicians, present sounds of the season.

9:30 TV Victoria Season 3 on Masterpiece

London Bridge Is Falling Down

10:00 NC REEL SOUTH Fiesta Quinceañera EX My Home, NC Photographer Watson


10:30 EX ncIMPACT Pretrial Reform: Haywood/

Jackson Counties 11:00 TV EastEnders NC ncIMPACT Pretrial Reform: Haywood/

Jackson Counties EX Antiques Roadshow Extraordinary Finds 11:30 TV EastEnders NC My Home, NC


America EX Secrets of


legendary police force. 6:30 NC Nightly

Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly

Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe London: Mod & Trad 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Cabbage’s Last Stand EX Family Travel

with Colleen Kelly Marine Life in the Bahamas 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow New Orleans, Part 3 NC Exploring

North Carolina On the Shoulders of a River EX Grantchester

Season 2 on Masterpiece Episode 5 Will Gary go to

the gallows? DV


Homecomings 9:00 TV Christmas with the

Tabernacle Choir Featur-ing Kristin Chenoweth

Enjoy favorite holiday music, dancing and storytelling.

NC Muse Music Heritage &


EX Death in Paradise Murder From Above 9:30 NC North Carolina




Asheville Radio 10:00 TV Independent Lens Attla A determined mind

and one good leg turned a native Alaskan dogsled racer into a sports hero. DV

NC My Home, NC Photographer Watson


EX Shetland The killer is close to home. 10:30 NC ncIMPACT Pretrial Reform: Haywood/

Jackson Counties 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Finding Your Roots Freedom Tales with

S. Epatha Merkerson & Michael Strahan


America EX Simply Ming Jonathan Waxman 6:30 NC Nightly


Spice Kingdom Tea Time! 7:00 TV Nightly

Business Report NC PBS NewsHour

EX Rick Steves’ Europe Highlights of Paris: Eiffel &

Monet to Crème Brûlée 7:30 TV North Carolina



EX Travelscope San Antonio’s Fiesta: Olé!

DV

8:00 TV Ornament of the World See how Muslims,

Christians and Jews forged a common cultural identity during a remark-able time in history.


David La Vere: The Tuscarora War

EX Discovering Britain St. Ives, Cornwall/Wiltshire/

Howden Dam, Peak District 8:30 NC Story in the

Public Square Joseph Sakran, MD 9:00 NC Muse Music Heritage & Educa-

tion: Steep Canyon Rang-ers/Start of Cool Summer Camp/We Insist: Music of Max Roach

EX Discovering Britain New Forest 9:30 NC Comic Culture HeroesCon 2018 10:00 TV FRONTLINE Weinstein See how the

Hollywood mogul alleg-edly sexually harassed and abused dozens of women over four decades.


Idealistic Icons EX Discovering Britain Dover 10:30 NC On Story A Conversation with

Graham Yost

Retrace medieval Spain’s 800-year period when Muslims, Christians and Jews peacefully coexisted on Ornament of the World, Tuesday, December 17, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.

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10:00 TV SuperNature: Wild Flyers

Crowded Skies In order to survive in the crowded sky, mammals, birds and insects must out-fly the competition.

EX Sara’s Weeknight Meals

Just 5 Ingredients 10:30 NC Folkways The Banjo EX Jamie’s

Quick & Easy Food Beef/Squid/Pork/Polenta 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Nature Raising the Dinosaur Giant

DV


America EX New

Scandinavian Cooking Pale Fish 6:30 NC Nightly


Milk Street Television The New Paris 7:00 TV Nightly

Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Provence: Legendary Light,

Wind & Wine 7:30 TV My Home, NC Jones’ BBQ/Mitchell’s

Clothing/Artivist Rosalía Torres-Weiner

EX Travelscope Following the Reformation

Trail in Switzerland & Germany DV

8:00 TV ncIMPACT Local Talent Pipeline:

Alamance County NC Flavor, NC Johnson’s Peaches: Candor EX Travelscope Ontario, Canada’s Niagara

Peninsula: Toronto & DV

8:30 TV Muse Public Art: Burnsville Gate-

way/Dare Coulter/UNCSA NC Around the Farm Table Book Club Lunch with

Author John Hildebrand EX Burt Wolf:

Travels & Traditions Volunteer Tourism, Part 1 9:00 TV North Carolina

Weekend Maggie Valley Elk/Charlotte

Motor Speedway Annual Christmas Light Show/Yad-kin Valley Tuscan-Inspired wines/Raleigh Steak House Celebrates 50 Years

NC A Chef’s Life Obviously, It’s Pecans EX Weekends

with Yankee Fall Foliage 9:30 TV Exploring

North Carolina Stream Ecology of the

Appalachians NC Jazzy Vegetarian Sukiyaki Supper EX Wild Nevada Winnemucca to

Paradise Valley 10:00 TV Ties that Bind Examine challenges of liv-

ing authentically in the face of deeply held beliefs and differences within one fam-ily and the culture at large.


Maggie Valley Elk/Charlotte Motor Speedway Annual Christmas Light Show/Yad-kin Valley Tuscan-Inspired wines/Raleigh Steak House Celebrates 50 Years

EX Journeys in India Calcutta: City of

Living History 10:30 NC Muse Public Art: Burnsville Gate-

way/Dare Coulter/UNCSA EX Travelogue China The Pearl River: Mouth to

Source Part 2 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope Zambia: Bush & River Safari 11:30 EX In the Americas

with David Yetman Gift of the Andes: Mendoza,

Argentina, & Its Win


America EX Taste of History Jamaica’s Spectacular

South Coast 6:30 NC Nightly


New Orleans Celebrations Pie Fest 7:00 TV Nightly

Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe French Riviera:

Uniquely Chic 7:30 TV NC SPIN EX Travelscope Following the Reformation

Trail in Switzerland & Germany DV

11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope Cruising Canada:

Ottawa & the Rideau Canal 11:30 EX In the Americas

with David Yetman Bogota to the Amazon:

A Trip Across Colombia


America EX My Home, NC Photographer Watson



EX ncIMPACT Pretrial Reform: Haywood/

Jackson Counties 7:00 TV Nightly

Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Belgium: Bruges & Brussels 7:30 TV Muse Music Heritage &



South Dakota: Wild Buffalo 8:00 TV SuperNature:

Wild Flyers Defying Gravity Explore

the basic principles of flight to see how animals become airborne in the first place.

NC Country Music Are You Sure Hank Done It

This Way? (1973 -1983) DV


The Floating Farm Featuring Chef Jeremiah Langhorn

8:30 EX Pati’s Mexican Table Home Cooking

Sinaloa Style 9:00 TV SuperNature:

Wild Flyers Masters of the Sky

Explore the extremes of true flight power, accel-eration, speed, maneuver-ability and endurance.

EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless

Always Time for Tacos 9:30 EX Taste of History From Kitchen Garden

to Table

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evening&weekendliStingS

8:00 TV Washington Week NC North Carolina Weekend



Episode 6 Geoffrey Charles makes a desperate plan to elope with Cecily before she weds George.


NC ncIMPACT Local Talent Pipeline:

Alamance County 9:00 TV Lidia Celebrates

America Return of the Artisans NC FRONT ROW

with Marc Rotterman EX Hillary Standing Tall Ed becomes

fascinated with the Himalaya. 9:30 NC Washington Week 10:00 TV Voces on PBS The Pushouts Former

gang member Victor Rios is a professor, author and expert on the school to prison pipeline.

NC NC SPIN EX Atlantis The Furies 10:30 NC Firing Line with

Margaret Hoover 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX EastEnders 11:30 EX EastEnders


Neighborhood DV

NC Ties that Bind Examine challenges of liv-

ing authentically in the face of deeply held beliefs and differences within one fam-ily and the culture at large.


River Run Stripers 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s

Neighborhood DV


Hidden Side of Table Rock 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV


River Run Stripers EX Exploring


Appalachians 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s

Neighborhood DV


Baja California Road Trip EX My Home, NC Surf, Salsa & Horse Healing

Raleigh salsa band Tropic Orchestra is sweeping the East Coast with its Latin sound and traditions. Savage Surfboards has been making surf boards in Wilmington for years, Corral Riding is a Cary non-profit that gives girls healing and transformation through horse therapy.



Homecomings EX Africa’s Great

Civilizations Origins/The Cross & the

Crescent DV

8:30 TV Molly of Denali DV

NC Muse Public Art: Burnsville Gate-

way/Dare Coulter/UNCSA 9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV



9:30 TV Nature Cat NC ncIMPACT Local Talent Pipeline:

Alamance County 10:00 TV North Carolina





A Traveller’s Bite 10:30 TV ncIMPACT Local Talent Pipeline:

Alamance County EX Jamie’s

Quick & Easy Food Lamb Kofta/Broad Bean

Salad/Alaska 11:00 TV Growing a

Greener World Don’t Feed the Landfills NC The Woodwright’s

Shop with Roy Underhill Thomas Day, Cabinetmaker EX Taste of History Remember Paoli 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s

Garden Home Oils All Around

NC Make48 Focus group feedback and

expert insights inform the teams’ prototypes.


The Royal Show with Martin Yan with Her Majesty the Queen of Malaysia

Noon TV GardenSMART A Chef & a Tasty Garden NC Growing a

Greener World The Year-Round Gardener EX Rudy Maxa’s World Edinburgh & the Scottish

Highlands 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Direct to Consumer &

Direct to School Farming NC Tastemakers Not So Fast EX In the Americas

with David Yetman The Rainforest Nisei:

Japanese Immigrants in the Amazon

1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow New Orleans, Part 3 NC Exploring

North Carolina Homecomings EX Travelscope Rwanda: In Search of Chim-

panzees DV

1:30 NC Changing Seas Cryptic Critters EX Samantha Brown’s

Places to Love International Food Show 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Highlights of Castile:

Toledo & Salamanca NC Sci NC Ecosystems EX Discovering Britain St. Ives, Cornwall/Wiltshire/

Howden Dam, Peak District 2:30 TV Curious Traveler Curious French Villages NC Story in the

Public Square Joseph Sakran, MD 3:00 TV Craftsman’s Legacy The Clockmaker NC To the Contrary

with Bonnie Erbé EX Discovering Britain New Forest 3:30 TV American Woodshop The Folk Art Rooster NC Firing Line with

Margaret Hoover 4:00 TV This Old House Hour Westerly: The Doors/Switch,

Affordable Geothermal NC FRONT ROW

with Marc Rotterman EX Discovering Britain Dover 4:30 NC NC SPIN

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5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal

Catch a classic episode. NC PBS NewsHour

Weekend EX Africa’s Great

Civilizations Origins/The Cross & the

Crescent DV


NC Washington Week 6 PM TV Song of the Mountains VW Boys NC Classic Gospel Kennedy Center

Homecoming 7:00 TV As Time Goes By Surprising News NC Sun Studio Sessions Chad Elliott & The

Redemption EX Holiday Sounds

from Appalachia Enjoy holiday hits from Ap-

palachian State University’s Hayes School of Music.

7:30 TV As Time Goes By Future Imperfect NC Echo Sessions Natural Born Leaders 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders The Made-to-Measure

Murders, Part 1 NC Song of the Mountains Loose Strings/Tennessee

Mafia Jug Band EX Country Music Will the Circle Be Unbro-

ken? (1968 -1972) DV

9:00 TV Midsomer Murders The Made-to-Measure

Murders, Part 2 NC David Holt’s

State of Music Della Mae 9:30 NC Bluegrass

Underground Gregory Alan Isakov 10:00 TV Doc Martin Faith

NC The Kate Gina Chavez EX Front & Center Robby Krieger & Friends 11:00 TV Hinterland Mathias unearths shocking

secrets after a curator is dis-covered in a shallow grave.

NC Austin City Limits Tom Waits EX Music Voyager The Exumas 11:30 EX Music Voyager Eleuthera

22 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat NC Closer to Truth Observing Physics,

Observing Nature? EX Finding Your Roots No Laughing Matter with

Seth Meyers, Tig Notaro & Sarah Silverman

6:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV

NC The Open Mind Never Again in America EX Antiques Roadshow Orlando, Part 2 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s

Neighborhood DV


Alamance County 8:00 TV Curious George DV


EX Discovering Britain St. Ives, Cornwall/Wiltshire/

Howden Dam, Peak District 8:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Firing Line with

Margaret Hoover 9:00 TV This Old House Hour Westerly: The Doors/Switch,

Affordable Geothermal NC Washington Week EX Discovering Britain New Forest 9:30 NC FRONT ROW

with Marc Rotterman 10:00 TV Exploring

North Carolina Stream Ecology of

the Appalachians NC NC SPIN EX Discovering Britain Dover 10:30 TV Muse Photographer Watson

Brown NC North Carolina

Bookwatch David La Vere:

The Tuscarora War 11:00 TV North Carolina

Bookwatch Etaf Rum:

A Woman Is No Man

NC Comic Culture Andy Smith 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum NC Chief Justice

Henry Frye NC Story in the

Public Square Ilan Goldenberg Noon TV FRONT ROW


Outdoor Journal Catch a classic episode. EX Travelscope Taiwan Matsu Festival

& Islands 12:30 TV NC SPIN NC Fishing

Behind the Lines Best of Fishing

Behind the Lines, Season 3 EX Burt Wolf:

Travels & Traditions Kansas City, Part 2 1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s

Milk Street Television Holiday Entertaining NC Song of the Mountains Loose Strings/

Tennessee Mafia Jug Band EX Atlantis The Furies 1:30 TV Field Trip

with Curtis Stone Central Coast 2:00 TV America’s


Middle Eastern Dinner NC David Holt’s

State of Music Della Mae EX Poldark Season 5

on Masterpiece Episode 6 Geoffrey

Charles makes a desperate plan to elope with Cecily before she weds George.

2:30 TV Cook’s Country Italian Comfort Food Classics NC Bluegrass

Underground Gregory Alan Isakov 3:00 TV Sara’s

Weeknight Meals Mouth of the South NC The Kate Gina Chavez EX Hillary Standing Tall Ed becomes

fascinated with the Himalaya.

3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen Restaurant’s Greatest Hits 4:00 TV Kevin Belton’s

New Orleans Celebrations Burger Fest NC Austin City Limits Tom Waits EX Doc Martin Farewell, My Lovely

Bluegrass Underground hosts Boulder-based, South African-American singer/songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov, Saturday, December 21, at 9:30 PM, on UNC-TV.

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18 | December

4:30 TV Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless

All in for Albondigas 5:00 TV Washington Week NC PBS NewsHour


Season 2 on Masterpiece Episode 5 Will Gary go to

the gallows? DV



Alamance County 6 PM TV Midsomer Murders The Made-to-Measure

Murders, Part 1 NC Black Issues Forum NC Chief Justice

Henry Frye EX Death in Paradise Murder from Above 6:30 NC Blackademics

Television Gerstenblatt/Conways/

Hoberman 7:00 TV Midsomer Murders The Made-to-Measure

Murders, Part 2 NC Holy Week

at Duke Chapel Reverend Dr. William H.

Willimon hosts this look at Duke Chapel’s holy week.

EX Shetland The killer is close to home. 8:00 TV Victoria Season 3

on Masterpiece Et in Arcadia NC Christmas Eve

in Duke Chapel Enjoy a community choir,

Scripture readings and Christmas carols.


Empires of Gold/Cities DV


Foreign Bodies NC Christmas Eve

in Duke Chapel Enjoy a community choir,

Scripture readings and Christmas carols.

10:00 TV Victoria & Albert: The Wedding

Episode: 1 Experts prepare to reconstruct the wedding that changed history and uncover astonishing details.

NC REEL SOUTH Gimme a Faith EX My Home, NC Jones’ BBQ/Mitchell’s


10:30 EX ncIMPACT Local Talent Pipeline:

Alamance County

11:00 TV EastEnders NC ncIMPACT Local Talent Pipeline:

Alamance County EX Antiques Roadshow Orlando, Part 2 11:30 TV EastEnders NC My Home, NC


America EX Discovering Britain Dover 6:30 NC Nightly


Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Poland Rediscovered: Kra-

kow, Auschwitz & Warsaw 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Rabbit EX Family Travel

with Colleen Kelly ATV Rides, Snorkeling,

& Taco Tours in Puerto Vallarta

8:00 TV The Sounds of Christmas

Premiere! Summer Brooke & The Mountain Faith Band perform upbeat, unique arrangements of seasonal favorites.


Stream Ecology of the Appalachians

EX Grantchester Season 2 on Masterpiece

Episode 6 Sidney seeks oblivion, his friend seeks forgiveness and a dead girl’s parents seek revenge. DV


Man & Mammoth in the Carolinas

9:00 TV Christmas at Belmont Enjoy traditional carols,

classical masterworks, world music and seasonal favorites.


way/Dare Coulter/UNCSA EX Death in Paradise The Stakes Are High 9:30 NC North Carolina




Pittsboro Folk Art 10:00 TV Christmas

in Duke Chapel Glorious songs accom-

pany the enlightening history of Duke University’s famous chapel.

NC My Home, NC Jones’ BBQ/Mitchell’s


EX Shetland A copycat vexes Perez. 10:30 NC ncIMPACT Local Talent Pipeline:

Alamance County 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Finding Your Roots No Laughing Matter with

Seth Meyers, Tig Notaro & Sarah Silverman


America EX Simply Ming Rick Bayless 6:30 NC Nightly


Spice Kingdom The Voice of the Mountain 7:00 TV Nightly

Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Budapest: The Best

of Hungary

The Sounds of Christmas, starring Summer Brooke & The Mountain Faith Band, premieres Monday, December 23, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.

CeCe Winans stars on Christmas at Belmont, Monday, December 23, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.

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EX Travelscope Eastern Europe’s Treasures:

From Budapest to Bucharest DV

8:00 TV Rick Steves European Christmas

Celebrate Christmas in England, France, Norway, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy.


Etaf Rum: A Woman Is No Man

EX Discovering Britain Glamis 8:30 NC Story in the

Public Square Ilan Goldenberg 9:00 TV Christmas with the

Tabernacle Choir Featur-ing Kristin Chenoweth

Enjoy favorite holiday music, dancing and storytelling.


way/Dare Coulter/UNCSA EX Discovering Britain Scone 9:30 NC Comic Culture Matt D. Wilson 10:00 TV NC Master Chorale:

Joy of the Season The acclaimed vocalists,

along with the Carolina Brass Quintet and other musicians, present sounds of the season.


Living Legacies EX Discovering Britain Ribble Valley 10:30 NC On Story A Conversation with

Pamela Ribon.

11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope Easter Island: Mysteries

& Myths DV

11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman

Coffee & Culture in Oaxaca


America EX My Home, NC Jones’ BBQ/Mitchell’s



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Alamance County 7:00 TV Nightly

Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe Lisbon & the Algarve 7:30 TV Muse Public Art: Burnsville Gate-

way/Dare Coulter/UNCSA EX Born To Explore

with Richard Wiese Maine: Beyond the Sea 8:00 TV Lucy Worsley’s 12

Days of Tudor Christmas Premiere! Discover surpris-

ing Tudor origins, rooted in devotion and charity, of many Christmas traditions.

NC Country Music Don’t Get Above Your

Raisin (1984 -1996) DV


Beautiful Swimmers Featur-ing Chef Spike Gjerde

8:30 EX Pati’s Mexican Table How Do You Say Tucson? 9:00 TV Call the Midwife

Holiday Special Premiere! A nursing short-

age means Christmas in the Outer Hebrides for Mother Mildred and the team.

EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless

All in for Albondigas 9:30 EX Taste of History The Best of St. Lucia 10:00 NC David Holt’s

State of Music David Holt House Party 2 EX Sara’s

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Days of Tudor Christmas Discover surprising Tudor

origins, rooted in devotion and charity, of many Christmas traditions.

NC Folkways The Fiddle EX Jamie’s

Quick & Easy Food Pork/Prawns/Gnocchi/

Cheesecake 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour EX Nature Snowbound:

Animals of Winter DV

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America EX New

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EX Travelscope South Korea: A Winter

Journey DV

8:00 TV ncIMPACT Incarceration & Mental

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Jarvisburg EX Travelscope Cruising the Mediterranean

DV

8:30 TV Muse Cultural History: Center

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with Fine Cooking Dijon, France EX Burt Wolf:

Travels & Traditions Volunteer Tourism, Part 2

The wait is over for this year’s Call the Midwife Holiday Special, premiering Wednesday, December 25, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.

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EX Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Celebrations

Jambalaya Fest 7:00 TV Nightly

Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe England’s Bath & York 7:30 TV NC SPIN EX Travelscope Hungary, Austria &

Germany: Sampling the Danube DV

8:00 TV Washington Week NC North Carolina

Weekend New Exhibit at Winston-

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Episode 7 Ross is deter-mined to take vengeance.


NC ncIMPACT Incarceration & Mental

Health/Multi-County 9:00 TV Craft in America Quilts NC FRONT ROW

with Marc Rotterman EX Hillary Louise Hillary falls in love

with Louise. 9:30 NC Washington Week 10:00 TV Craft in America Identity NC NC SPIN EX Atlantis Pandora’s Box 10:30 NC Firing Line with

Margaret Hoover 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX EastEnders 11:30 EX EastEnders


Neighborhood DV

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See how small town life in a restored four-square house near an old cemetery in-forms the NC writer’s work.


Catch a classic episode. 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s

Neighborhood DV

NC It Had Wings Based on an Allan

Gurganus short story, a widow sees something heavenly and wounded fall into her backyard.


Hummingbirds: Life in Fast-Forward

NC Rendered Small Explore over 1,200 Ameri-

can folk art buildings on display in Steven Burke and Randy Campbell’s private collection in Hillsborough.



Offshore Bite EX Exploring

North Carolina Smoky Mountain Diversity 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s

Neighborhood DV


California Grasslands EX My Home, NC The Trip Artist Dave Also-




Stream Ecology of the Appalachians


Empires of Gold/Cities DV

8:30 TV Molly of Denali DV

NC Muse Cultural History: Center for

Craft/Chitlin’ Circuit 9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV


New Exhibit at Winston-Salem’s Reynolda House/Raleigh’s Dorothea Dix Park/Homeplace Strawber-ries & More near Farmville/Hang Gliding in Nags Head

9:30 TV Nature Cat NC ncIMPACT Incarceration & Mental

Health: Multi-County



NC A Chef’s Life Turnips: The Roots EX Weekends with Yankee Winter in New England 9:30 TV Exploring

North Carolina Smoky Mountain Diversity NC Jazzy Vegetarian Weeknight Burger Meal EX Wild Nevada Best of Season 4 10:00 TV Imaginary Village

of Allan Gurganus See how small town life in a

restored four-square house near an old cemetery in-forms the NC writer’s work.



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can folk art buildings on display in Steven Burke and Randy Campbell’s private collection in Hillsborough.

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Asia’s World City DV


Favelas & Samba: Brazil


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Pennsylvania 6:30 NC Nightly

Business Report

Craft in America features Penland artist Cristina Córdova, Friday, December 27, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.

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Norwegian Versions of Classic Recipes

10:30 TV ncIMPACT Incarceration & Mental

Health: Multi-County NC The Open Mind Never Again in America EX Jamie’s

Quick & Easy Food Asian Tuna Steak Salad 11:00 TV Growing a

Greener World Mason Bee Revolution:

How the Hardest Working Bee Can Save the World

NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill

Oak Field Gate EX Taste of History Settling Jamestown 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s

Garden Home When Kids Takeover NC Make48 Teams finalize designs and

prepare pitches. EX Taste of Malaysia

with Martin Yan Below the Wind Noon TV GardenSMART World-Class Garden Tips NC Growing a

Greener World Don’t Feed the Landfills EX Rudy Maxa’s World London 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Louisiana Crawfish Harvest/

Belgian Endive Recipes NC Tastemakers Fun Ferments EX In the Americas

with David Yetman Two Millennia of Mayas:

Guatemala’s Cultural Leg 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Mansion Masterpieces NC Exploring


Appalachians EX Exploring

North Carolina Smoky Mountain Diversity 1:30 NC Changing Seas Lords of the Wetlands EX Samantha Brown’s

Places to Love Charleston, SC

2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Normandy: War-Torn

Yet Full of Life NC Sci NC Cackalack-ology EX Discovering Britain Glamis 2:30 TV Great Scenic Railway

Journeys Steamtown National

Historic Site, Pennsylvania/Conway Scenic Railroad

NC Story in the Public Square

Ilan Goldenberg 3:00 TV Craftsman’s Legacy The Metal Engraver NC To the Contrary

with Bonnie Erbé EX Discovering Britain Scone 3:30 TV American Woodshop Resin & Wood Turned

Table Lamp NC Firing Line with

Margaret Hoover 4:00 TV This Old House Hour Westerly: Tanks for

Propane/Polybutylene, Squeaky Door


EX Discovering Britain Ribble Valley 4:30 NC NC SPIN 5:00 TV Carolina

Outdoor Journal Catch a classic episode. NC PBS NewsHour

Weekend EX Africa’s Great

Civilizations Empires of Gold/Cities DV


NC Washington Week 6 PM TV Song of the Mountains The Woodsheep/Newtown NC Classic Gospel Homecoming Picnic 7:00 TV As Time Goes By Going Online NC Sun Studio Sessions Rebecca Haviland &

Whiskey Heart EX Bluegrass

Underground Kathy Mattea 7:30 TV As Time Goes By You Can’t Manufacture

Happy Endings for Everybody

NC Echo Sessions Jackie Venson EX Country Music Are You Sure Hank Done It

This Way? (1973 -1983) DV

8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Sword of Guillaume, Part 1 NC Song of the Mountains The Dillards

9:00 TV Midsomer Murders Sword of Guillaume, Part 2 NC David Holt’s

State of Music Darin & Brooke Aldridge

with John Cowan 9:30 NC Bluegrass

Underground Steve Earle & The Dukes 10:00 TV Doc Martin From the Mouths of Babes. NC The Kate JJ Grey & Mofro EX Front & Center Chris Janson 11:00 TV Hinterland Mathias makes a gruesome

discovery following a fatal shooting at a petrol station.

NC Austin City Limits 6th Annual Hall of Fame Honors

Robert Earl Keen hosts top performers for the inductions of Shawn Colvin, Buddy Guy and Lyle Lovett.

EX Music Voyager Morocco: Gateway to

Africa: The North 11:30 EX Music Voyager The Heart of Morocco:

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29 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat NC Closer to Truth Why Philosophy of Physics

& Cosmology? EX Finding Your Roots Hard Times with Michael

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6:30 NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV

NC The Open Mind Mother of Exiles EX Antiques Roadshow Orlando, Part 3 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s

Neighborhood DV


Health: Multi-County 8:00 TV Curious George DV


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Propane/Polybutylene, Squeaky Door

NC Washington Week EX Discovering Britain Scone 9:30 NC FRONT ROW

with Marc Rotterman

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Smoky Mountain Diversity NC NC SPIN EX Discovering Britain Ribble Valley 10:30 TV Muse Berlin & Back Again:

UNCSA Film Students NC North Carolina

Bookwatch Etaf Rum:

A Woman Is No Man 11:00 TV North Carolina

Bookwatch Elaine Neil Orr:

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Prison Building NC Story in the

Public Square Scott Hartley Noon TV FRONT ROW


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River Adventure 12:30 TV NC SPIN NC Fishing

Behind the Lines Spring Walleye:

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Milk Street Television The New Paris NC Song of the Mountains The Dillards EX Atlantis Pandora’s Box 1:30 TV Field Trip

with Curtis Stone Western Australia 2:00 TV America’s


Better Breakfast NC David Holt’s

State of Music Darin & Brooke Aldridge

with John Cowan EX Poldark Season 5

on Masterpiece Episode 7 Ross is deter-

mined to take vengeance. 2:30 TV Cook’s Country Tacos Two Ways NC Bluegrass

Underground Steve Earle & The Dukes


A Coburg Quartet 10:00 TV Victoria & Albert:

The Wedding Episode: 2 Witness the

most accurate reconstruc-tion of Victoria and Albert’s wedding ever staged.

EX My Home, NC Chatham Rabbits/Mitchell’s


10:30 NC REEL SOUTH Santuario EX ncIMPACT Incarceration & Mental

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America EX Discovering Britain Ribble Valley 6:30 NC Nightly


Business Report NC PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Europe North Wales:

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to Skin a Catfish EX Family Travel

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North Carolina Smoky Mountain Diversity EX Grantchester Season

3 on Masterpiece Episode 1 Geordie is

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10,000 Years Before Contact

3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals

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EX Doc Martin Faith 4:30 TV Mexico—


Mole Is Mexico’s Mother Sauce

5:00 TV Washington Week NC PBS NewsHour


Season 2 on Masterpiece Episode 6 Sidney seeks

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Weekend—Shorts Gourmet Food Tours 10:00 TV POV Midnight Traveler Hassan

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